Look into gluon/contrib/comet_messaging.py. There is an example in there.
Requires tornado.
On Sunday, 13 May 2012 07:06:49 UTC-5, stefaan wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> Would anyone have an idea on how to accomplish reverse ajax ("server
> push") on free hosting like fluxflex/pythonanywhere?
>
> If I'm correct, typical "comet" libraries require special web servers,
> so that is probably out of the question on typical free hosting sites.
>
> For my own education I've implemented a little chat application using a
> "long polling" approach, where the server receives a request, and is
> looping and sleeping until some timeout occurs or until new info is
> available, but it very quickly uses up all my CPU quotum on e.g.
> fluxflex (I suspect that a statement like time.sleep(1) is counted as
> using 1 second of CPU time)
>
> Is the only alternative to use GAE with their channel API ?
>
> Thanks for any insights you may have.
>
>
